So despite this trio of fresh products being ready for holiday sales over the quarter just gone, the money being raked in pretty much flatlined. And that has to be disappointing for Microsoft, obviously.

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That said, the more expensive machines like the Surface Book 2 did reportedly see solid enough sales, but that’s a fairly niche proposition compared to the Surface Pro, as we’ve seen in the past[4].

As for the rest of the overall fiscal picture, revenue in the firm’s intelligent cloud division hit an impressive $ 7.8 billion (around £5.5 billion, AU$ 9.8 billion) which was up 15%, and productivity and business raked in $ 9 billion (around £6.3 billion, AU$ 11.3 billion) which represented a hefty increase of 25% year-on-year.

The latter included Office consumer products and cloud services going up by 12%, with the number of Office 365[8] consumer subscribers reaching 29.2 million. Not too shabby indeed.